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Youtube goes to war with ad blockers - how companies die
(www.youtube.com)
The internet is falling apart
The internet is dead. Long live the internet!
Big corporations that are trying to force ads and otherwise squeeze their users are falling. The internet existed before these companies, and it will exist after them. Personally, I say, good riddance to them.
Nothing lasts forever. YouTube will eventually give way for something else.
I’ll stop using ad block when YouTube stops making me watch an advert at the beginning of the video and then two unskippable ads one minute into the video.
I literally haven't been impacted by this at all. Are they just going after one particular ad blocker?
It seems like they're either rolling this out slowly, or this is just a small-scale test only affecting a small percentage of the user base.
Could be AB testing I suppose.
I swear, it's like all large tech companies are trying to out stupid each other right now.
Still no ads, adblocker works in youtube opened in firefox
Good luck with that.
I gotta admit I pay for premium. Like, I pay for all these different services like Netflix, hbo, prime, Spotify etc, but the one I use the most (by a lot!) is YouTube. I bought it most of all to not have ads on my iPhone. Now the creators gets payed, I never see ads anywhere, all is good.
I wouldn't mind paying for it either, but it's not available in my country. So, until it is, uBlock all the way.
For anyone considering it, I highly recommend YouTube Premium. Comes with YouTube Music as well, which is a perfectly fine replacement for Spotify.
I'll stick to ad blockers and not give the megacorp any money. thanks for the rec though
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this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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